New Picture

Model Wife (Universal). Year ago the American Mothers Society of New York decided that blonde, bumpy Joan Blondell was America's Most Glamorous Mother. This year they reaffirmed their decision, commissioned a sculptor to preserve Mother Blondell in bronze. This was Universal's cue to acquaint cinemagoers with the marital charms of their beglamored star.

In Model Wife, however, Miss Blondell is not a mother. She is a stenographer who spends most of her time avoiding the advances of her boss's son and keeping her marriage to boyish Dick Powell secret (the boss would fire her if she knew). This tiresome routine is not lightened by Comic Charles Ruggles, whose comedy consists of cracking his knuckles and playing drunk.

Cinemafans who had hoped for a peep at the off-stage life of Crooner Powell and wife, who have been married five years, possess two children, will have to wait. Their performance indicates that they are thoroughly accustomed to each other. Mother and Father Powell have 124 scenes together. In all but 15 they bicker.

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